Tyondai Braxton to Tour With Orchestra

Tyondai Braxton-- aka the dude with the crazy curly hair who used to be in Battles-- will play shows with the Wordless Music Orchestra in New York City, Minneapolis, and Washington DC this coming March. The special shows will find the multi-instrumentalist and composer playing songs from his 2009 solo album Central Market along with experimental pieces from other composers. Dates are below:

In other Braxton news, he recently turned up in a trailer video for New Yorker music writer Alex Ross's book Listen to This. In it, he plays with Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson and opera singer Rebecca Ringle to demonstrate how one bass line has popped up in various styles of music across hundreds of years. Learn-y! It's embedded down there somewhere.